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Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: CMC Airboss on October 10, 2005, 08:05:57 PM

Air racing legend and Gold Cup trophy winner Dago Red is now up for sale...

http://aafo.com/racing/2005/Dago_Red_4_Sale/ (http://aafo.com/racing/2005/Dago_Red_4_Sale/)

MiG

Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: Nuke33 on October 10, 2005, 08:12:26 PM

Anyone want to give me $1.5mil so I can buy that puppy? Aww c'mon

Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: Swager on October 10, 2005, 08:40:40 PM

Hope whoever buys it rebuilds it as stock military.

Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: VOR on October 10, 2005, 08:46:17 PM

I was thinking the same Swager, but it looks like the owner is going to be picky about prospective buyers. He wants it to remain an active racer.

Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: Golfer on October 10, 2005, 08:57:33 PM

1.5 mil is a pretty fair price.  If I only had 7 figures burning a hole in my pocket.  Just checked my pockets...some spare change, a $5 and some high quality lint.

Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: Meatwad on October 11, 2005, 12:11:44 AM

Ugly red color. Change it to silver with WW2 markings, and then it will be a beautiful plane

Title: Re: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: SkyWolf on October 11, 2005, 08:49:07 AM

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Originally posted by CMC Airboss
Air racing legend and Gold Cup trophy winner Dago Red is now up for sale...

http://aafo.com/racing/2005/Dago_Red_4_Sale/ (http://aafo.com/racing/2005/Dago_Red_4_Sale/)

MiG

To me the "travesty" is turning a P-38 or P-51 into a White Lightening or Dago Red to begin with. It's always pissed me off to see these bastardized beasts at air shows. I hope someone tricks this owners  fanny and buys it to restore.

Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: J_A_B on October 11, 2005, 09:32:49 AM

Dago Red is a famous and unique airplane.  It'd be a shame to rebuild it into just another normal-looking P-51 when hundreds of such aircraft already exist.

J_A_B

Title: Re: Re: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: Bodhi on October 11, 2005, 10:14:35 AM

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Originally posted by SkyWolf
To me the "travesty" is turning a P-38 or P-51 into a White Lightening or Dago Red to begin with. It's always pissed me off to see these bastardized beasts at air shows. I hope someone tricks this owners  fanny and buys it to restore.

WHite Lightning is being rebuilt now.  Not gonna be as White Lightning either, but bastardised still comes to mind.

Title: Re: Re: Re: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on October 11, 2005, 10:23:14 AM

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Originally posted by Bodhi
WHite Lightning is being rebuilt now.  Not gonna be as White Lightning either, but bastardised still comes to mind.

Interesting. I seem to remember that it started out as an F5 photo recon version of an L, but had the cowls and such from an F model fighter, and it had the turbos removed. At least that's what it looked like last time I saw it about ten years or more ago. So what are they doing this time?

Title: Dago Red goes up for sale
Post by: Nuke33 on October 11, 2005, 12:44:13 PM

I say keep it a racer.. Afterall, Dago Red holds the world speed record for any piston powered aircraft. I think that makes it just as unique or 'more than' any other P-51 in existance.